II.1.1 88. Rectangle-shaped ostracon with opposing notches, early V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H., W., Th., Diam..

Additional description

Rectangle-shaped ostracon made from wall fragment of Attica, BG open band cup(?) early V century B.C.E. Two notches in the middle of each short side opposite one another. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, grid square 58, dugout 1. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1979, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.79.175. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, interior. Originally inscribed on the ostracon. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.3 (preserved)

Text

Category

Rectangle-shaped ostracon with opposing notches. 

Date

Early V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

 

Commentary

The notches suggest that the object was made as a kind of spool for thread. The graffito on one side consists of a kind of a grid pattern there is a line that connects notches in a straight line from one side to the other and other lines run roughly parallel to this central horizontal line while yet other lines cross the horizontal line at different angles.

 

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